Chapter 618

Pocket Universe Federation

The main leaders, including Mr. Reed, the federation's initiator and creator, were now seated around this table.

"I'm certain, Reed."

Huang Yang said anxiously: "Our universe never had a Holy Grail War from the start, and the Stark we know is definitely problematic."

"He has always fought alongside us to maintain peace."

Reed pressed his forehead, looking troubled, and said: "But if there's no problem, why did he run?"

"The current situation is far from optimistic."

Huang Yang pointed his electronic pen at the 3D projection models of various Parallel World Earth structures and said: "We must find the true Holy Grail as soon as possible and stop this world crisis."

A superfluid domain observation device, constructed using macro-scale quantum effects, revealed that Holy Grail Wars had simultaneously appeared across countless spacetimes in the multiverse!

Seeing that Mr. Reed still looked conflicted, Huang Yang spoke earnestly:

"If we continue like this, our universe will be devoured by the World Devourer—you've already seen those records!"

"We've been classmates since elementary school, we've always been friends—don't you trust me?!"

"Your memories have been altered, Reed."

"Alright." Mr. Reed frowned, speaking with grave seriousness:

"From now on, summon scientists and mages from the quantum and temporal fields—we must deal with the source immediately!"

Mr. Reed, wearing a deep blue specialized uniform, his temples streaked with white and his beard thick, extended his rubbery, twisting arms to grab a pot of coffee and pour himself a cup.

Finally, he noticed Huang Yang still staring at him and lifted his arm slightly.

"Reed, with your intelligence, you should know what I mean." Huang Yang shook his head in disappointment, then clenched his fist and slammed it on the table, saying:

"Stark! Su Su Tuoni Stark!"

"Where did he go?!"

"Do you think I know?" Reed looked around at the other superheroes watching him: "Mire, Beck, Greski—do you suspect me too?"

His eyes were blank, as if he completely failed to understand the situation.

Greski said coldly: "I can perform high-level future extrapolation and retroactively deduce past events based on known information, analyzing variables."

"Impressive. Why didn't you ever mention this before?" Reed said, surprised.

"According to known information, even if Stark displayed those technologies, he couldn't have reacted in time to our pre-arranged encirclement," Huang Yang spoke up.

"Reed, you're the one who brought him here—and only you could have leaked our plans to him."

"Moreover, a certain blockage has appeared in the Pocket Universe Federation's dimensional field, preventing us from reaching any Parallel World using current technology in the short term."

"Only long-term preparation and cooperation with your son Franklin could achieve this level."

"Can I ask you one question: why are you shielding the Iron God, Su Su Tuoni Stark?!"

Sensing the cold, sharpening gazes of everyone in the room, Reed calmly picked up a small iron cup, took a sip, then slightly smiled.

"Because I know he isn't the Iron God," Reed said.

"Give me his coordinates," Huang Yang said with an unyielding tone: "This is for the survival of the entire universe!"

It was a legitimate reason—everyone rose and surrounded Reed, creating overwhelming pressure.

"Huang Yang, in my memory, you never liked talking and were often bullied by those Black students—it lasted until high school."

Reed stared at the white-haired Asian man and said: "Exactly when did you become so powerful?"

Before Huang Yang could answer, Reed effortlessly twisted his flexible body through the gaps between the surrounding people.

"You—you, and you, Beck Lar—I have a private Reed Council, composed solely of versions of myself from every Parallel World, past and future."

"After exchanging information, I discovered that across all these spacetimes and worlds, only Victor von Du Mu has always been my classmate and rival."

"But some of you don't even have household registration records—that's too strange."

Greski glanced back at Huang Yang, who gave a slight shake of his head, signaling for Reed to continue.

"What does that prove?" Huang Yang asked curiously.

"Like the universe itself—the Sun God, the Infinite Ones forming the Great Society—they are unique beings across all universes."

Reed's sinuous form reached Huang Yang's side and said:

"I can't prove it, so at first I didn't think it strange—until I remembered one thing: an event that should have occurred after the Secret War, but which everyone has forgotten."

"What?" Huang Yang asked, puzzled.

"After the Secret War, during the universe's rebirth, there was an event where the Life Bringer Galatus was transformed into the World Devourer," Reed raised a finger and said:

"Your arrival at that time prevented the deceived Creator from erasing the superfluid domain, averting the collapse of all multiversal boundaries into a single universe."

"The Eternal Watchers, Logos, the Ultimate Squad, the Dark Celestial Group, the Queen of Neverness—a colossal battle."

"The outcome: the second, third, fifth, and sixth iterations of the multiversal entities, destroyed and reborn, crossed the Shore of Death and returned, dragging the First Celestial Binding Band to the Far Shore."

"You—" Huang Yang's eyes showed surprise; others stared at Reed in shock: "You still remember these events?"

"You first appeared in the Alpha Squad—not as my classmate," Reed's gaze sharpened, his pace quickening:

"That history vanished, replaced by the Golden Age of countless cosmic heroes and villains!"

You are the Reincarnators from the Reincarnation Space—you are the ones who altered this universe's history!

"Now that something has emerged beyond your control, why should I help you stop the Holy Grail War?"

This scene was beyond expectation.

Not because Reed knew about the Reincarnators—but because of his reaction, his attitude, and the memories he still retained.

"Because we have no ill will toward this universe—doesn't the disappearance of the First Celestial's history sound like a good thing?"

Huang Yang regained his composure, smiling calmly, and continued:

Our current mission and all data on the World Devourer come from the Reincarnation Space—I can guarantee their authenticity no matter how you verify them.

"We entered this universe involuntarily, yet we still act as good people—even when carrying out missions, we protect peace."

"Think carefully—how much have we done for this universe?"

Whoosh.

Reed's body instantly returned to normal, and in his hand appeared a palm-sized metal object with a long tube extending from it.

"The Ultimate Eraser?!"

Huang Yang stared at Reed: "From the past to now, I truly considered you and Susan close friends—but you believe in that Iron God?"

It was a relic far surpassing the Infinity Gauntlet, capable of erasing not only universes but also timelines at any point across dimensions one through ten—even erasing dimensions themselves.

"Yes, Huang Yang, I also considered you friends."

Reed said: "But you're mistaken about one thing—Stark isn't the Iron God; he's a Reincarnator, just like you."

He didn't remember the missing segment of history—he discovered that history had completely changed after Su Su Tuoni Stark, who had become a Reincarnator, returned!

At first, he thought it was nonsense.

But if you don't investigate, such things seem absurd; once you start investigating, and with the evidence Stark provided, Reed began studying what had truly happened.

For all these years, including when he proposed establishing the Universe Federation, Reed had worked alongside his son Franklin.

He truly discovered that these Reincarnators were making the universe better.

But the more he saw, the more Reincarnators flooded into the Pocket Universe Federation, the heavier his unease grew!

"You saved me, saved Susan, saved all of us—counting the crisis of rebooting the universe's spacetime, we've known each other for centuries!" Reed suppressed his emotional surge with reason, his finger resting on the Ultimate Eraser to maintain his will.

"But you don't know, Huang Yang!!!"

"Your very existence is the true threat to this universe—you've been manipulated by the Reincarnation Space! You're an SSS-ranked team, yet even you don't know the truth!"

"No matter what you do—even simply existing in this world—accelerates the awakening of the First Heaven. You shouldn't exist within this universe's normal timeline!"

Hssss…

Huang Yang drew in a sharp breath, stunned beyond words: "You actually know all this?!"

Several SSS-ranked teams around him looked bewildered.

"." Reed's pupils shrank, and he immediately pressed the Ultimate Eraser.

This artifact's power depends on the user's willpower—in the hands of someone resolved to die, it can destroy the entire multiverse!

But.

Nothing happened.

"Originally, three Reincarnator teams participated in the Secret War—who took Su Su Tuoni Stark away?!" a woman with short golden hair asked, puzzled.

"And at that time, only our team should have been SSS-ranked—how did Stark even reach this level?"

Click! Click! Click!

Reed pressed it again and again, certain this was the Ultimate Eraser—he still felt a strong connection when pressing it.

"Reed, stop pressing it—the universe's fundamental laws have already changed," Graysky patted Reed's shoulder and sighed.

"You're mistaken about one thing—SSS-ranked teams were long ago. This is our second mission in this universe, so your memories are flawed."

"We're now X-ranked," Huang Yang said. "Each member possesses the power to destroy the multiverse alone."

"We're tasked with collecting and monitoring timelines within this universe, ensuring the First Heaven awakens."

The members of the surrounding SSS-ranked teams stared as if seeing ghosts; the bearded man who had insulted them during the meeting quietly stepped back.

"Now that the misunderstanding is cleared, bring Stark back. Our team doesn't need to kill him to complete our mission—we just need to understand his situation."

Huang Yang's gaze toward Reed held a touch of resignation and pity.

"I originally planned to bring your entire family into the Reincarnation Space to survive before the mission ended—Franklin and Val called me 'Uncle.'"

"You shouldn't have become an accomplice!" Reed angrily threw the Ultimate Eraser to the ground.

"Without me, another X-ranked team would come to carry out the mission."

Huang Yang stood up, walked to Reed, and said: "Regrettably, defeating the First Heaven didn't make your world better."

All changes occurred after that.

"Wasn't he taken to the distant shores beyond the sea?!"

"Distant Shore… between it and here lies a Sea of Death."

Huang Yang smiled: "I don't know what happened, but that place is also called the Abyss."

Hum!

The highest alert sounded within the Pocket Universe Federation, but Huang Yang and his group remained calm.

"I've been waiting for this day," Reed's tone turned mocking.

"Though I don't know what the Holy Grail War or the Multiverse Devourer truly are, I won't let your plan succeed—better a tiger and leopard fight than a jackal feast alone!"

The Ultimate Eraser's failure was unexpected, but it didn't matter—he had a backup plan.

The Pocket Universe Federation would be sealed, completely detached from all dimensions; afterward, the trustworthy superheroes would act together.

"Reed, we need your help," Huang Yang said.

"In the new plan, we need you to activate the device and destroy the superfluid field separating parallel universes, bringing all Earths into a single universe."

"What nonsense are you spouting?" Reed didn't want to say more—he waited for the changes, for his pre-placed devices to activate.

But gradually…

In the conference hall, the machine used to monitor Earths across the multiverse began shedding its outer shell layer by layer.

"This is impossible," Reed muttered, staring at his own elongated fingers operating the machine: "What did you do to me?! How is the Supreme Evolution machine here?!"

"Of course, it's your own replication," Huang Yang held up a mirror before Reed.

Inside the mirror…

Mister Fantastic Reed, wearing a helmet with an upward-tilted occipital crest, was synchronizing with the machine.

That figure was the Creator Reed from the Ultimate Universe—long dead under the Pocket Universe Federation's pursuit.

To prevent the day when we turn on each other, I preserved the soul of the Creator Reed and hid it within your body as a latent force.

Huang Yang said slowly: "Just as all universes will eventually merge into one, you must begin merging with all the Reeds of the Parallel Worlds."

As the Superfluid Domain began to collapse, the multiversal structure was crumbling.

In the mirror, the faces of Zombie Reed, Alien Reed, and Parasite Reed began to surface, and within the Pocket Universe Federation, every single superhero was experiencing the same condition.

They stood frozen in place as their alienated timelines began to fuse with their own histories.

"Finish what you never completed, Creator."

Watching the Federation gradually mutate and the aura of destruction grow thicker, Huang Yang's team gathered together, waiting as the Superfluid Domain collapsed bit by bit.

The sealed Pocket Universe had become the perfect command center.

At that moment.

A blazing light swept across, instantly extending for hundreds of millions of miles.

Only then did the roar of thunder explode.

After the gale and debris of matter erupted along both sides of the slash, the Reincarnators present tore their eyes from the shattered instruments and turned toward the direction from which that terrifying slash had come.

From a realm beyond the material plane—where the universe was torn open, time and space were twisted, and a deafening, piercing howl rang out—stepped a golden-haired female knight wielding Excalibur.

Behind her.

Came a vast, surging crowd—and Su Su Tuoni Stark?!

Where are the Reincarnators of the Reincarnation Space? Kuang Dao Kuangdao Sanlang asked.

"Over there, and over there, and over there," Stark pointed, then drew a circle around Huang Yang's group: "All of them."

Clang—!

Kuang Dao Kuangdao Sanlang's long blade fell to the ground. "We're rich."

More and more people surged in behind him; everyone's mind began to recall the ultra-cool, ultra-legendary luxury items listed on the Master God Space's exchange catalog.

Tenzan Lixiang, now wearing a wristwatch forged from the Universal Knowledge Charm, raised a primordial gauntlet inlaid with Infinite Stones: "Reincarnators, assemble!!!"

The next instant.

"Kill these fakes!!!"